Too Venal for Words category archive
State of Secrecy 0
Scott Maxwell discusses the underhanded strategies that Florida’s Governor DeSantis is using to keep Florida’s citizens from knowing the state’s public employees are doing. Here’s a tiny bit:
(snip)
Fortunately, the court system has so far rejected DeSantis’ secret-keeping scheme involving records his staff created while plotting to fly migrants from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard.
The Gold Ruse 0
The Smoking Gun reports on the con.
Follow the link for the details and remember, if some stranger on the phone sounds convincing, it may just because he’s trying to convince you.
He’s a Real Big Man . . . 0
. . . or so he would have you think.
Overt Operators 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Seth J. Gillihan writes of the “7 signs that you’re a covert manipulator.”
Follow the link and see whether his piece reminds you of any over manipulators who may be in the news.
Facebook Frolics 0
One more time, “social” media isn’t.
Indeed, it amplifies the antisocial and propagates the pollution of the polity.
The Patriot Gamer 0
As a Memorial Day memory, Dick Polman offers a quick review of occasions at which Donald Trump showed his (dis)respect for American service members.
Vaccine Nation 0
A prescription for peril:
The stupid. It burns.
More Mean for the Sake of Mean 0
Methinks one could make a strong case that mean for the sake of mean is a core Republican Family Value, at least for today’s Republican Party.
Misdirection Play, Crime Wavers Dept. 0
Thom makes the case that, despite conventional wisdom, inequality (such as, for example, the effects of Ronald Reagan’s “trickle on economics”), not poverty alone, is the primary root of crime.
He provides some telling examples.
In related vein, speaking of arrogant billionaires . . . .
And, in News of Mean for the Sake of Mean . . . . 0
At Above the Law, Joe Patrice theorizes that, in trying to prove just how cruel and cold-hearted she can be, South Dakota governor Kristi Noem may have just possibly stepped in it.
Candy Crushed 0
I think I have expressed before in these electrons my skepticism as to the benefits of legalized on-line gambling.
Barnum was wrong.
There’s more than one born every minute.
Vaccine Nation 0
Speaking of merchants of death . . . .
A Sure Thing 0
At The Philadelphia Inquirer, Jonathan Zimmerman looks at the effects of the sudden burst of sports betting and, in particular, the advertisements therefor. He is less than optimistic. A snippet:
Methinks he makes some good points and commend the article to your attention.
Aside:
I find the spate of solicitations for suckers to be most off-putting.
And the thought of a betting app on a phone, well, that’s an invitation to dumb scrolling.
Nor Any Drop To Drink 0
More mean for the sake of mean.
